Thursday, April 4, 2013

Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge

The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge existed between 1826 and 1848 as a Whiggish London organization, aiming at publishing information for people who could not afford a formal education or who preferred self-education. This establishment published inexpensive texts that covered scientific and other similar high-minded material for the rapidly expanding reading population. Among those published materials were a series of maps with immaculate detail.

About Me

“I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.” ― Ari Berk